To commemorate the 100th birthday of The Trail, the Library teamed up with Trail staff to celebrate this momentous occasion! Over the summer, selected editions of The Trail have been made available through our digital repository Sound Ideas. Student archivists Jordan Apele and Kelsey Mahler spent time this summer going through past editions of the newspaper starting with the first edition published in 1910 to identify major historical events. Working with Trail editors, many of the historical articles were selected for reprint in this year’s Trail. To launch this focus on the history of the Trail – join trail staff at the celebration event next week: Thursday, September 23, 6:00-8:30 pm in the Rotunda!
Enjoy some cake and look through some issues spanning the last 100 years of our student newspaper.

Don’t miss this exciting “Book Club Rodeo” event free to the public 7 p.m. at Kings Books, Tuesday, Sept. 14! Book Buyers from local librarys will talk about interesting books in publishers’ fall lists, recent good reads, and older favorites!

The Library had trivia questions for students at LogJam, with prizes to the closest answers to the following questions.

The answers to the trivia questions:

1. How many print outs are made at the library per year?  Answer: 1.5 million
2. How many questions were asked & answered in the library last year?  Answer: 2078
3. How many electronic magazines/journals does the library have?   Answer:  C) over 25,000

Bonus: How many people visited the library this morning between 8am and noon?
Answer: 512

And the winners are… Max Keyes and Andrew Fox

CONGRATULATIONS!

Puget Sound’s first-ever Library Palooza rocked Collins Memorial Library this past Wednesday & Friday between 11-12, as both incoming and returning students joined library staff for a jam-packed hour showcasing library spaces and services, with some extra fun thrown in:

* A Wii video game extravaganza
*Photo opportunities with the Library’s Seat of Knowledge and the Tree of Knowledge
* Rousing games of Cornhole
* Adding to the World’s Longest Snake Book
* Signing the biggest Collins Library  Scrapbook ever
* Crafting Dorm Decorations
* Sleevefacing

Everyone had a blast with two rounds of Palooza, as you can see from our photo album on Facebook! Thanks for coming!

Be on the lookout for some intriguing items in the library this Fall –  like the biggest Collins Library scrap book you’ve ever seen!

As we approach the end of the academic year, Collins Library is proud to launch a new digital resource for the campus community. A SOUND PAST chronicles through historic photographs the people, buildings, events, athletics, and campus environment that make the University of Puget Sound such a unique place.

Since 2007, John Finney, class of ’67 and retired Associate Dean and University Registrar has been selecting, scanning and describing these images with assistance from the staff of the Collins Memorial Library. The collection represents an ongoing library effort to make photos from the University Archives available to a wider audience. Read more about John’s work on the Collins Unbound Library Blog.

Spend some time this summer enjoying the wonderful images in A SOUND PAST and we look forward to a “Sound Future” and fall semester 2010.